Articles & Research

2024: A Year to Remember

December 12, 2024

Our People Are Data: Charlotte Urban Institute Releases First-Ever “State of Our Data” Report

December 11, 2024

New research shows stable housing may lead to positive educational outcomes

December 11, 2024

New community training initiative aims to help nonprofits tell better stories

November 13, 2024

Data You Can Use: The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Quality of Life Explorer

November 12, 2024

Liz Morrell Appointed Director of Public Policy Research

November 11, 2024

Explore the Charlotte Journalism Collaborative’s 2024 Election Guide

October 9, 2024

A look at income inequality in the Charlotte Region

September 27, 2024

Publications and Reports

Changing priorities: How the neighborhood choices of out-of-town movers impacts locals

December 15, 2023

Alternatives to Violence Program offers promise, lessons for preventing gun violence

May 17, 2023

Three takeaways from new report on homelessness and incarceration in Charlotte-Mecklenburg

May 4, 2023

Report: 2022 Matthews Housing Needs Assessment

February 28, 2023

Connecting for Stability: Understanding The Relatives and the Young People They Serve

February 22, 2023

Survey sheds light on the future of Charlotte’s creative community

August 10, 2022

Corporate landlords include exclusionary language in rental housing listings

July 7, 2022

Examining housing needs at Brookhill Village in the event of redevelopment

February 10, 2022

Past work/archives

Galleries

Charlotte City Walks 2022

May 31, 2022

The 2019 Schul Forum

September 29, 2021

Charlotte’s library through the decades

November 25, 2019

Letting rivers run wild again in Badin and Great Falls

October 16, 2019

The Sandhills AGInnovation Center promotes farming

October 3, 2019

Innovative agriculture connects farmers to urban centers

October 3, 2019

Knitting together a region with the Carolina Thread Trail

October 1, 2019

Transforming the South Fork of the Catawba River and its towns

September 30, 2019

Maps

The Quality of Life Explorer: Big Value for Local Government

April 20, 2023

Quality of Life Explorer Timeline

April 20, 2023

The Quality of Life Explorer: 10 years and Counting

April 5, 2023

Quality of Life Explorer: Making data intelligible and available for journalists (like me!) who aren’t PhDs

April 5, 2023

Explore new data about Charlotte via interactive maps

August 22, 2022

Who you befriend affects your economic mobility

August 1, 2022

Mapping unequal health care access in Charlotte

April 18, 2022

Explore local housing data with new interactive maps

April 4, 2022